EVERETT — A jury has found a former Monroe prison guard guilty of child rape.
It took jurors in Snohomis County Superior Court less than three hours of deliberation Wednesday to convict Jason Dominguez of second-degree rape of a child, third-degree rape of a child and communication with a minor for immoral purposes, The Daily Herald reported.
According to witness testimony, Dominguez sent sexual messages over Facebook to a girl when she was in her early teens that he met when he was a Girl Scouts volunteer. Charging papers say the messages escalated to physical abuse from 2017 to 2019.
Dominguez, 36, declined to testify.
The girl’s mother testified about finding the messages, reporting them to police and said the girl told detectives about the abuse.
The teen estimated the abuse happened 10 to 12 times when she visited Dominguez and his kids.